Sentences with foment
fo·ment
F f - They accused strike leaders of fomenting violence. [VERB noun]
- To foment a riot
- It is the swells from the Southern Ocean, which slow down and steepen over the reef-strewn shallows, that foment the outstanding surf.
- They unravel the fabric; it has been lambasted by rabid politicians who foment ignorance to distil mistrust.
- He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
- To foment trouble; to foment discontent.
- Iran has accused a prominent American academic it imprisoned two weeks ago of conspiring to foment a velvet revolution there.
- Both foment and ferment can be used to talk about stirring up trouble: he was accused of fomenting/fermenting unrest. Only ferment can be used intransitively or as a noun: his anger continued to ferment (not foment); rural areas were unaffected by the ferment in the cities